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“Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.”

~ Mark Twain

Business

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  What Layoffs? Many Employers Are Eager to Hang On to Workers.

 But Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music works at cross purposes to that distancing effort. Though famously difficult to sing, the difficulty is exciting; it’s impossible not to be thrilled when a performer nails the treacherous downward arpeggios of “Buenos Aires” or the stratospheric belt of “A New Argentina.” 

我要謝謝你對於本基金會的承諾，並鼓勵你這時候捐錢，藉由你的貢獻，戴明博士的工作得以在未來確保提昇。
謹致謝誠並致福，
案:我們台北的學會更需要你的贊助!
Re: Quality tool training - a mistake!?
Perhaps we were talking at cross-purposes.
I remember Dr Deming's 1950 Lecture to Japanese Top Management is within DEN and please let's reread it if you like. I like to make it available to some good friends here to save our efforts.

hang on

phrasal verb of hang

1. 1.

   hold tightly.

   "hang on, we're going to crash!"

   Similar:

   hold on to

   hold fast to

   grip

   clutch

   grasp

   hold tightly

   cling to

   cling on to

   cleave to

   Opposite:

   let go of
2. 2.

   INFORMAL

   wait for a short time.

   "hang on, I'm not ready yet"

at cross-purposes

: in a way that causes confusion or failure because people are working or talking with different goals or purposes. We'll never succeed together if we continue to work at cross-purposes (with each other). It became clear that they were talking at cross-purposes.

Cross–purposes Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary